Lots of people have been calling and emailing wanting to know more about how we made our demo video and where they can get the music etc, so I thought I would answer some of the questions here. The actual production happend pretty quick. After a few takes of each screen capture movie they took only about the time that they ran which is usually no more than second 5-15 seconds.

The Video: 

The screen video grabs can be done quickly with any number of screen capture utilities. The popular ones are Camtasia Studio and Scott uses Snapz Pro for OSX. These popular ones give you alot of options for exporting (flash, quicktime avi) which give you the most amout of flexability in editing.

Once the videos are captured, they are then imported into Adobe After Effects for assembly in a timeline format and I can create the text with some effects and transistions and also add some other types of media quite quickly. Alot of this can be done with online services lately so check some of those out. We will probably do more of a ‘talking head’ tour type demo in the future. Oh, and after the video was published, I switched my PC to Vista and the source that was on my desktop got lost. So yes, we know there is an error or two that most people won’t pick up on, but not much I can do now. Lesson learned about backing up everything. Expect a new demo video shortly with some of the new features we have and are releasing.

The Music: 

For the music overlay we wanted something original, catchy yet not take away from the visual content. It would also be nice if it could fit the tempo of the video that was already being assembled. Oh ya and also if it could done the next day that would be great too. For that I enlisted the help of my brother Ben who records under the name Ben Cooper, who is a professional musician, singer songwriter and composer. Where I’d like to be in the digital media/designer world he is in the musical word. I sent an early composition of the video to Ben at 9PM on Monday and he had this musical piece back by 11:50PM the same nite. Simply amazing! Very little direction was given. When you have a extremely talented, creative musician at your disposal you just learn to let them do their thing. For anyone that is not related to Ben, he’s available to do contract work for commercials, movies, demos etc at fairly competitive rates.

Contact him if you are interested bencooper37 at hotmail. Also checkout his Myspace page to hear some of his original vocal music. You won’t be dissappointed.

http://www.myspace.com/bencooperlive

Have fun, 

Bernie

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